From: Jerry Avins on
On 4/21/2010 12:03 AM, Al Clark wrote:
> Heinrich Wolf<muell(a)hemedarwa.de> wrote in news:836fqtFefeU1
> @mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> The original Budweizer was a Czech lager beer, **NOT** that
>> ^^^^^
>> A German word again meaning here "store" or ``storeable''. I.e. a
>> beer that was filtered/cleaned especialy well such that it could be
>> stored for a while w/o getting a bad taste. This was something
>> special still even in the thirties --- my ancestors ran a village
>> brewery.
>>
>
> The American Budweiser starts out with a bad taste. I like them though
> because somebody has too pay for our sports on TV.

Does anyone remember the Schaefer beer jingle "Schaefer is the one beer
to have when you're having more than one?" That was probably the start
of the "light beer" plague that lays so heavily on the land.

I remember the Schaefer brewery on Webster Avenue in The Bronx. Almost
the entire ground floor was dedicated to the delivery wagons and the
horses that pulled them. It was the only business in New York City that
was permitted to use its wells instead of the water mains.

Or was that a Ballantine brewery? My memory of the 40s grows a bit dim.

Jerry
--
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no
God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
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From: Rune Allnor on
On 21 apr, 14:05, Greg Berchin <gberc...(a)comicast.net.invalid> wrote:

> I'm a teetotaler.

??????

Only drinks tea? Not even coffee?

Rune
From: Greg Berchin on
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:21:20 -0700 (PDT), Rune Allnor <allnor(a)tele.ntnu.no>
wrote:

>> I'm a teetotaler.
>
>??????
>
>Only drinks tea? Not even coffee?

tee�to�tal�er [tee-toht-ler]

�noun
a person who abstains totally from intoxicating drink.


In fact I also drink neither tea nor coffee. But I put away a lot of Mountain
Dew.

Greg
From: dbd on
On Apr 21, 9:04 am, Jerry Avins <j...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
> ...
> Or was that a Ballantine brewery? My memory of the 40s grows a bit dim.
>
> Jerry

Was that "the 40s", your 40s or the roaring 40s?

Dale B. Dalrymple

From: Robert E. Beaudoin on
On 04/21/10 12:04, Jerry Avins wrote:
> On 4/21/2010 12:03 AM, Al Clark wrote:
>> Heinrich Wolf<muell(a)hemedarwa.de> wrote in news:836fqtFefeU1
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> The original Budweizer was a Czech lager beer, **NOT** that
>>> ^^^^^
>>> A German word again meaning here "store" or ``storeable''. I.e. a
>>> beer that was filtered/cleaned especialy well such that it could be
>>> stored for a while w/o getting a bad taste. This was something
>>> special still even in the thirties --- my ancestors ran a village
>>> brewery.
>>>
>>
>> The American Budweiser starts out with a bad taste. I like them though
>> because somebody has too pay for our sports on TV.
>
> Does anyone remember the Schaefer beer jingle "Schaefer is the one beer
> to have when you're having more than one?" That was probably the start
> of the "light beer" plague that lays so heavily on the land.
>
> I remember the Schaefer brewery on Webster Avenue in The Bronx. Almost
> the entire ground floor was dedicated to the delivery wagons and the
> horses that pulled them. It was the only business in New York City that
> was permitted to use its wells instead of the water mains.
>
> Or was that a Ballantine brewery? My memory of the 40s grows a bit dim.
>
> Jerry

Well, that takes me back. I always parsed that as implying that
Schaefer was a good choice for a cheap binge but not your first pick if
you were going to have few enough to remember the taste; an odd
admission in an ad slogan. It seems to me the slogan (and maybe the
beer -- is Schaefer, or, for that matter, Ballantine, still being
brewed?) was retired long before the first light beer (called by that
name) was put on the market (I'm thinking mid 60s for the slogan, but
late 70's for lite beer), but I could be mistaken.

Thanks for jogging my memory, Jerry.

--REB

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